State Statistics Committee: Unemployment rate makes up 4.9% in 1Q

09/05/2013 | Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Number of citizens registered through labor agencies, as those who are looking for a job, made 9,400 persons in the first three months of 2013 in Uzbekistan compared to 14,500 persons in the same period of 2012, Gazeta.uz reported quoting the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan .

In January-March 2013, number of the unemployed defined in compliance with the “Method for calculation of unoccupied population which requires employment” approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 24 May 2007, was 628,200 persons against 625,500 people in the same period of 2012.

The State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said that the rate of unemployment made up 4.9% of economically active population in the first quarter of 2013 (5% in 1Q 2012).

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